Throughout the spring students from San Francisco Art Institute and California College of the Arts will collaborate with SFMOMA through a Sultan-inspired class that culminates in an experimental event on May 5, 2017 from 12pm- 4pm in the White Box Theatre at SFMOMA. Below are some highlights from the course currently in progress.

Course Objectives: This class explores the creation of meaning and the meaning of authorship with special consideration given to the life, work, and legacy of SFAI alumni and CCA Professor Larry Sultan (1946–2009). Taught in tandem at the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of the Arts, students will share and critique work with their cohorts while exploring ideas via individual and collaborative projects, studio experiments, readings, written responses, and field trips. Focusing on reproduction, repetition, appropriation, evidence, and Evidence—a seminal 1977 book project by Sultan and Mike Mandel—we will investigate the work of artists with especially complex relationships to images and authorship. We will work toward a public project in conjunction with SFMOMA’s Department of Education and Public Practice around Sultan's upcoming retrospective at the museum. Class Taught by lindsey white and jordan stein.

We were SO lucky to have University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Curator, Connie Lewallen join us for a chat about Mandel and Sultan's Newsroom, a project she commissioned through the Matrix Program in 1983.

Part of a series of public programs celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art at BAM/PFA, this conversation featured MATRIX artists Mike Mandel, Larry Sultan, and Jim Goldberg and former MATRIX Curator Constance Lewallen. Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan showed photography-based work in their 1983 MATRIX 61 exhibition, Newsroom.

ACT 4: Los Angeles

We headed down to Los Angeles for the LA BOOK FAIR. Along the way we ate pizza, played carnival games, spent 2 nights in a youth hostel, talked photography and curating with Charlotte Cotton, got overwhelmed by books, took in some art shows, studio visit with Ian James, more food, and sang karaoke!

Curator and Writer Charlotte Cotton came all the way to Santa Monica to hang out with us in the first brick structure in Los Angeles. We talked about her essay Two Guys from Van Nuys in the Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel book, today's photo world, curating, life lessons, and so much more...

HANGING TOUGH AT THE INTERNET DEPARTMENT

Laura won SO many prizes!!!

WINNERSSSSSSSSSS SUE, LAURA, ALEX !!!!!

THE SANTA MONICA PIER CREW

The terror of being stuck between 2 of your professors on a carnival ride!!!

ACT 5: ARCHIVES & COLLECTIONS

Christina Moretta, Photo Curator of The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection pulled boxes, scrapbooks, and files holding photographs from Public Works, Harvey Milk Collection, SPCA, to found scrapbooks. The Collection contains photographs and works on papers of San Francisco and California scenes ranging from 1850 to the present. This collection includes views of San Francisco street scenes, buildings, and neighborhoods, as well as photographs of famous San Francisco personalities. The collection consists mostly of the photo morgue of the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, a daily newspaper, ranging from 1920s to 1965. The collection also contains albums, slides, postcards, cabinet cards, stereoviews, and lantern slides of San Francisco and California subjects.

NEXT UP SFMOMA STUDY CENTER! LOOKING AT LARRY SULTAN'S PICTURES FROM HOME

OVER THE WEEK, THE CLASS READ ALL OF LARRY SULTAN'S PICTURE'S FROM HOME BEFORE SEEING THE IMAGES IN PERSON.

ACT 6: LINEAGES

TALKING TO JIM GOLDBERG ON SPEAKER PHONE WHILE WE LOOK AT RICH AND POOR AND TALK ABOUT ROBERT HEINEKEN, JOHN COLLIER, EAST VS WEST COAST PHOTOGRAPHERS, MAKING PHOTOGRAPHS, AND BEING IN ONE OF LARRY'S CLASSES.